he currently serves as the chief executive officer of the colorado behavioral healthcare council. it is a statewide network comprised of 28 behavioral health organizations that provides treatment and other services to 120,000 people each year. he became as a site that -- he began as a psychotherapist and has been promoted to a program developer before ultimately moving in the senior management. before leaving the health care council, he served as the executive director of mental health centers in the valley and in wyoming. throughout his career, he has work to develop integrated treatment approaches to mental health. he is working to expand the first aid program in colorado. to include prevention, early identification, and access to health. his decades of experience gave him a unique perspective. i look forward to his testimony. >> we have a senior consultant at the national council for behavioral health. he is also director of the appalachian consultant group and a deputy director of the center for integrated health solutions. he will share his firsthand account of recovery from